The City of Angels: Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

It's scorching outside today; hotter than usual, which is saying a lot. I can hear the hum of media helicopters above, going all day long. There are more ants and cockroaches in the house this week as well: all signs that point to more water coming. The city seems quieter, while the traffic seems to be piling up. Sukhumvit (the main drag) seems like ghost town in comparison to a usual busy Bangkok day. There is NO bottled water to be found in the city and businesses and stores have already closed their doors in preparation.

Things seems to be pretty much the same in my neighborhood, the kids are still smiling and running about, the street vendors are cranking out food at their standard top speed and there are fewer obvious signs of the impending pool Bangkok is about to become. However, 7-11 shelves are empty, the wood shop down the road has built cement walls around its doors and the government's Customs building, just a five minutes walk from my home, is barricaded with sandbags.

Mercy had an emergency meeting early today to discuss options. The latest information I've heard from Father Joe is that 10 of Mercy's kindergartens are already under water. The doors are locked and the rooms are eerily silent at the five kindergarten rooms located on Mercy's compound. The older girls are out of school for two weeks as their school is flooded, thus they have been put to work cleaning all of Mercy. You can feel the stress and tension, and as we all know, the worst is in the anticipation. Water and food have been stock piled and the most common fear amongst the kids and shared by myself, is that we will all be stuck under house arrest until the waters subside.

Most of the Mercy homes are built lifted from the ground level, a smart architectual choice in this neighborhood, which has seen floods before. For now all we can do is wait... I will try and keep this updated as regularly as possible, so continue to check back.